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Agist vs Alist - What's the difference?

agist | alist |

As a verb agist

is to take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same.

As a noun alist is

(computing) association list in lisp.

agist

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman agister (to pasture for a fee)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same.

    • Related terms

    * agister

    Anagrams

    * *

    alist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) association list in LISP.
  • * J. S. Moore and Q. Zhang, Proof Pearl: Dijkstra’s Shortest Path Algorithm Verified with ACL2'', in Joe Hurd and Tom F. Melham (ed.), ''Theorem proving in higher order logics: 18th international conference , 2005, p. 375:
    • We use alists' extensively in this work. A directed graph is an ' alist associating vertices with edge lists.

    Related terms

    * car * cdr * LISP * list